The World Is Under Siege

In 453 BC, the three families destroyed Zhibo, and the Jin state was destroyed in name only. The Wei family was allocated hundreds of miles of land east of the river - no danger to defend, and enemies on all sides. The Zhao family is in the north, the Han family is in the south, Qin is in the west, Qi and Chu are in the east, and even the Jin government officials are planning restoration day and night in Quwo. Everyone in the world is waiting to see Wei's joke. Wei Si - Wei Wenhou, took over this mess. Instead of rushing to expand his army and fight for war, he issued an order to seek talents, opened Xihe Academy, worshiped Bu Zixia as his teacher, and attracted talents from all over the world to Wei. Li Kui came, bringing with him the "Book of Dharma" and the ambition of reform; Wu Qi came, carrying the reputation of killing his wife to seek generals and a master of military skills; Le Yang came, preparing for an expedition to Zhongshan Kingdom, thousands of miles away. The state of Wei went from a weak state under siege to the pinnacle of hegemony step by step. However, hegemony is easy to gain, but people's hearts are hard to maintain. Marquis Wu of Wei was jealous of Wu Qi, so Wu Qi fled to Chu at night; King Hui of Wei did not use Shang Yang, and Shang Yang entered the west to strengthen Qin; Pang Juan framed Sun Bin, and Sun Bin Maling took revenge. Every brain drain is a crack in Wei's hegemony. In the end, thousands of crossbows were fired in the Battle of Maling, and all the elites of the Wei state were lost, and the hegemony sank like the setting sun into the Western Mountains. "The Siege of the World" takes the rise and fall of the Wei State as its warp and the gain and loss of talents as its latitude, recreating the historical events of the early Warring States period in a panoramic manner. There is the struggle between reform and conservatism, the life-and-death friendship between soldiers, the ideological confrontation between Confucianism, Mohism, Taoism, and the classic battle of encircling Wei and rescuing Zhao. This is an epic about ambition, power and redemption, a tragedy between ideal and reality, talent and destiny.